Jewelry Tutorial

Jewelry Tutorial:

Intro:
You will need the metal palette from Watermellon
Bubblegum for this tutorial. That's linked to the actual page of the palettes.And the base I'm using is my Quinn base. I've cropped the parts off it I want to use. It's my base so I can do that. Anyways you can get the
base on my base page.

First the section right under the words Jewlery Tutorial....
You'll see 6 steps. That's not to many huh? This is showing how you should shade the chain.
It's straight but obviously you don't want a straight line for your jewlery. This is just to show you the amount of colors used and how many pixels between color change. I usually use this five color palette.
Step 1: Draw your necklace in your first color which is shown here in dark blue.
Step 2: Now with color two (shown in green), draw a line on that about three to four pixels from both ends.
Step 3: With color three (shown in pink), draw again about three pixels from the end of the second color.
Step 4: With the fourth color (Shown in light blue), draw a line across the thrid color about two pixels from the end of the thrid color.
Step 5: Repeat step 4 with the fifth color (shown in purple), about three pixels from the end of the fourth color.
Step 6: Recolor with metal colors.

The first little section shows the same process on a curved chain like the jewlery will actually look on a doll. (all steps are the same as above)

And the last section shows how to draw beads. I used the same five color palette to shade these. You'll see two different size beads. A large round bead an a small bead which looks like a cross.
Here's how to shade that:
Step 1: Draw your bead shape. For the large bead I used the middle circle in paint under the brush tool. For the small bead a drew a cross that's 3 pixels tall and long.

Step 2: On the large bead I drew in the second color and left 1 pixel on the bottom of the bead in the first color. And one pixel on the bottom of both sides.
On the small bead I draw a "v" shape in the second color, leaving the pixel on the bottom and one pixel on the side of bead.

Step 3: On the large bead I drew a cross shape the same size of the small bead. I left a pixel on the top in the second color and on the side and the bottom.
The small bead got two pixels. One on each end of the "v" shape. The middle pixel in color 2 stay that way.

Step 4: Recolor the small bead it's finished.
Using the fourth color, add two pixels on the large bead. In a "v" shape. We're basically shading that third color like we did the small bead.

Step 5: Add two dots on the ends of the "v" shape in the fifth color.

Step 6: Recolor the large bead and you've finished.

To use these all you have to do is copy and paste onto the base to make a string of beads. You'll want to make sure the beads are in a half circle shape so they match the shape of the base. Human body's are rounded not flat. Remember that.

On the base pieces next to our lovely diagrams, I have drawn a chain on the neck.
The easy thing to do to complete your jewelry is to add a charm to the chain. You can also add a few beads staggered around the chain.
You can put the charm in the center of the chain. But that's kind of boring. So I like to add them to the sides sometimes.This works really well if your chain is exactly even in the middle part and you "can't" add a charm to it.
You can see that pictured on the head.
Now how do you connect the charm to the chain?
Well that's easy. First figure out what color is above the charm. Mine are positioned under color 3. So I pick a darker color and put a dot to connect the two. In this case that would be color 2. Now my connector is two pixels long so I typically add one pixel directly above the charm in the next lightest color. so that color be color 4. See how nice that looks?

On the arm I've got a chain bracelet and I bead one. If you've saved the tut image I recommend you zoom up and see how I've spaced the beads to make it look rounded on the arm. You don't want the beads to actually touch.
Let's say you want to make a rubber bracelet instead of a metal one. Basically repeat the process you used for the metal bracelet but use a color instead.

As always you:
may save this to your computer for further reference and use. Just don't claim it's your tut.